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Another 1980s Seattle listing.

Monday November 11, 1985

KIRO (CBS)

11 am Y&R

Noon News 

1 pm As the World Turns

2 pm Guiding Light

As we already know, no Capitol.

KOMO (ABC)

11 am Ryan's Hope

11:30 am Loving

Noon All My Children

1 pm One Life to Live

2 pm General Hospital

KING (NBC)

11:30 am Search for Tomorrow

Noon Days

1 pm Another World

2 pm Santa Barbara

So sometime between November 1985 and June 1986, KING dropped Search for Tomorrow.

@rlj Lily and Tyler kissed, that's as far as it went.

More garbage time to end the year.

49 minutes ago, SoapDope said:

 

You mean the one at the Bayou or Victor's ? 

The Bayou of course  Yes I know there was no pole at The Bayou. That set looked more like a honky tonk dive bar than a strip club. In 2020 a strip club would have a pole, dollar bills on the stage, VIP section with bottle service. The Bayou was clearly no Magic City, heck it wasn't even The Brass Rail (anyone that's a fan of basketball and/or hip hop has heard of the real places I referenced).

4 hours ago, Broderick said:

It was a mechanism for the writers to establish that Nikki was a "slut going down the wrong path" without having to drag Casey into it as the confidant.  

No wonder Nikki ended up climbing that pole three years later 

@Soapsuds You mean Ronan? He hasn't been seen since 2012 I think.

@DarnTricia Cast and Donny Boaz are 14 years apart, that's not that ridiculous a parent/child age gap as far as daytime casting goes. Believe me, there have been worse.

2 hours ago, Elsa said:

Y&R
Tucker McCall as Victor Newman (there was some kind of EB drama during that time)

It was a contract renegotiation and it was rumored EB had to take a pay cut. Remember EB was gone for a bit in late 2009.

46 minutes ago, Franko said:

Y&R:

I can't understand the new guy

From what little I've seen of early 1980s Y&R I thought EB sounded fine. For whatever reason Bill Bell didn't have EB use an American accent instead of his natural German accent.

46 minutes ago, Franko said:

Such-and-such sure seems pretty “up” today

I see what you did there   

It seems to me alot of the flashbacks are being taken from the spring/summer classics. Maybe some 1980s footage not seen since they originally aired might surface this week.

Let's go back 10 years prior to 1980. Imagine what the topics would've been then. Maybe it's me, but it seems like every show besides the ABC big three was a mess in the early 1980s. We know NBC on the whole was a giant mess in the early 1980s. CBS Daytime was shaken up by the huge rise of the ABC big three, thus the numerous scheduling changes in the early 1980s.

1 minute ago, Forever8 said:

Wasn't one of those detectives the one who were investigating Gina's burning down? 

Yeah that would've been Detective Webber.

All the fake-ass Shemar's on Y&R: Wesley, Damon, Detective Webber, Detective Wallace, Mason, Tyler, Jordan, Nate. Eddie Winslow doesn't count.

3 hours ago, Khan said:

Hell, that could be an SON topic in ANY year, lol.

We all know Y&R has had issues BTS probably from the beginning, but the well-known BTS drama seemed to surface once ES took over as EP. I wonder if there's a connection.

8 minutes ago, soapfan770 said:

LOL I remember the heavy criticism Usenet gave of Victor & Jill sleeping together in 1992 and them calling it gross, it wasn't pretty, yet a bit hypocritical since some posters still wanted Victor with Ashley & Nikki because Jill was too old(!)  

The Victor/Jill hookup was unexpected, maybe that's why it grossed out viewers. I'm surprised viewers thought Jill was too old for Victor, considering JW is 5 years younger than EB. I guess viewers at that time were used to seeing Victor with sweet young things and not with someone closer to his age.

The Victor/Jill hookup lead to speculation for years that Billy was Victor's child and not John Abbott's. Look at the timeline: Victor/Jill hookup October 1992, Jill learns she's pregnant March 1993, Billy born July 1993 and was not premature. Given the storylines of the last decade, thankfully there was no Who's the Daddy with Billy.

17 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

Y&R: "CRICKET IS ANNOYING!!!"

17 hours ago, Franko said:

BREAKING: S**t went down on the Y&R set!

15 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

Y&R:
"BRING BACK TERRY LESTER!!!"
"A Kay Doopleganger??....Ridiculous..." 
"Brenda Epperson is Pretty, but....Eileen is Ashley"
"Finally a Jill who can ACT" 
"Y&R to expand longtime Abbott maid's Family"

B&B:
"I give the show 6 months at best"
"Shocker: JoAnna Johnson OUT!" 
"I love Sally!" 
"I don't watch Y&R...Can someone give be a history lesson on Sheila"

Yes to all of these!

I'd add:

B&B: "Why doesn't my CBS station air this show?!!?"

GL: "Big changes to start 1991: new head writer and cast departures."

GL: "Next big changes of 1991: new executive producer and a big return."

Days: "The supercouple era is over. What's next?"

All: "Jackie Collins casts daytime drama stars in her latest miniseries."

Who Shot Victor was a clever way to accommodate EB's filming his part in Titanic. Victor gets shot and lies in a hospital bed for like a month. The hospital scenes were probably pre-taped and thus the audience couldn't tell that Victor was MIA.

5 hours ago, yrfan1983 said:

I'm surprised YR rated high in many categories as '96-97 is generally considered a "down period" for the show.  (I am biased as I can't stand Nick and Sharon)

5 hours ago, Faulkner said:

I agree. Nick and Sharon ruined what felt like such a classy, adult show for me. 

The aftermath of OJ was not a good time for Y&R. Nick and Sharon ate the show from Fall 1994-Spring 1996. Then there was the lull from Fall 1996 through to the first half of 1997. In that same period, Reilly's Days had a huge rise and almost knocked Y&R out of #1 in June 1997.

New doctor in town Casey has a troublemaking younger sister Nikki. Bill Bell would reuse that element 12 years later with the Barber sisters, Olivia the new doctor in town and Dru the troublemaking younger sister. There was another parallel with early Nikki and early Dru. Both got involved with shady characters when they tried to start modelling careers. Nikki joins Rose DeVille's "agency" which was really a front for prostitution. Dru signed up with "agents" that tried to feature her in a porn film.

17 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

I think Lucas came on Summer 1977. 

Most Y&R fansites have Lucas arriving in 1978, that's what I was going by.

11 hours ago, Soaplovers said:

It sounds like 1978 was another transition year of sorts for the show. 

The big arrivals that year were the Reed sisters, Paul, and Lucas. In that 1978 episode, was Nikki's boyfriend that Casey was talking about Paul? I don't believe Casey and Nikki's mother was ever shown, but their father arrived the following year.

Lucas was the younger of Vanessa's sons, but IRL Tom Ligon is four years older than John McCook. Crazy to think in that 1978 episode JM was younger than his current B&B co-stars Darin Brooks and Scott Clifton.

55 minutes ago, janea4old said:

Presumably they'll just use the edited version that aired April 17, 2020.

45 minutes ago, BoldRestless said:

Too bad! 

Agree, that's weak.

5 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

hopefully they pull out something good for Christmas repeats, if they have them this year.

Even if there are Christmas classics this year, watch them be repeats of some of the 2010s episodes from the spring/summer classics.

4 hours ago, Soaplovers said:

Wow John Mccook was hot!

Sorry Soaplovers but I don't get John McCook's appeal.

To think if JM hadn't left Y&R in 1980, we might not have gotten Eric Braeden.

CBS/Sony are not playing, taking videos down with the quickness.

@YRfan23 Thank you for the episode. Hopefully more from that era surfaces.